22. Department of the Treasury · Minor · Needs Congress
Increase Taxpayer Advocate funding by at least 20 percent
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“The resources allocated to the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate should be increased by at least 20 percent (about $44 million).”
What has happened
- Not started
Taxpayer Advocate Service funding was held flat, not increased by 20 percent. Public Law 119-75 division E provides that "not less than $271,200,000 of the amounts provided under this heading shall be available for operating expenses of the Taxpayer Advocate Service" — the identical figure Congress set in the last enacted Financial Services appropriation, Public Law 118-47 division B. A 20 percent increase would be roughly $325 million. The taxpayer services account as a whole rose by $256 million over the same period while the Advocate's floor did not move.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Both figures read from the enrolled texts. The FY2024 provision at Public Law 118-47 division B reads “not less than $271,200,000 … for operating expenses of the Taxpayer Advocate Service”; Public Law 119-75 repeats it verbatim and adds “of which not less than $7,000,000 shall be for identity theft and refund fraud casework”.
The National Taxpayer Advocate’s own annual reports ask for more IT modernization funding; that is not this ask and is not counted.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- Office of the Taxpayer Advocate budget
- ID
- 1962